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Henry Prusoff
Henry J. Prusoff (nicknamed "the Russian Bear"; December 10, 1912 – May 1943) was a top-ranked American tennis player in both singles and doubles in the 1930s. Prusoff was ranked No. 3 in doubles during the 1930s, and No. 8 in singles in the U.S. in 1940. Early life He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was Jewish. He later lived in Seattle, Washington. He attended Garfield High School in Seattle. Tennis career Prusoff won the singles and doubles titles at the Oregon State Tennis Championship in 1932. In 1933 he played in the US Championships, but was defeated in the round of 128 by Keith Gledhill. Prusoff also won the singles title and reached the doubles final at the Cincinnati Masters in 1934, and played in the US Championships where he was defeated in the round of 64 by John Van Ryn. He also won the Tri-State Tennis Tournament that year. In 1935, while ranked 13th in the United States and after defeating Sandy Davenport at the U.S. Championships in the round of 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada, northeast of Cincinnati, northeast of Columbus, and approximately west of Pennsylvania. The largest city on Lake Erie and one of the major cities of the Great Lakes region, Cleveland ranks as the 54th-largest city in the U.S. with a 2020 population of 372,624. The city anchors both the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and the larger Cleveland–Akron–Canton combined statistical area (CSA). The CSA is the most populous in Ohio and the 17th largest in the country, with a population of 3.63 million in 2020, while the MSA ranks as 34th largest at 2.09 million. Cleveland was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River by General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Hunt
Gilbert Agnew Hunt, Jr. (March 4, 1916 – May 30, 2008) was an American mathematician and amateur tennis player active in the 1930s and 1940s. Early life and education Hunt was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.), Eastern High School. Tennis career Hunt reached the quarterfinals of the US Open (tennis), U.S. National Championships in 1938 U.S. National Championships – Men's singles, 1938 and 1939 U.S. National Championships – Men's singles, 1939. Scientific career Hunt received his bachelor's degree from George Washington University in 1938 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1948 under Salomon Bochner. Hunt became a mathematics professor at Princeton University specializing in probability theory, Markov processes, and potential theory. The Hunt process is named after him. He was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM in 1962 in Stockholm. His doctoral students include Robert McCallum Blume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Players From Ohio
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. The rules of modern tennis have changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
